Brussels, 06/08/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy has presented the European Convention with five proposals for, "the full enforcement of human rights principles". It notes that the European Union is going to welcome a further thirteen countries in the "foreseeable future" (therefor including Turkey), the Federation stresses that, "Most of these states, which consist of former people's republics or states with authoritarian traditions, do not have a strong democratic culture" and the main challenge for the EU is to admit these countries on the basis of European standards of democracy and human rights. In order for the European Union to continue as an "area of human rights", the federation calls for: the inclusion of the Charter of Human Rights in the constitutional treaty; the accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment, as well as the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages the Armenian document mentions the situation of Roms and Kurds; the EU ratification of the statutes of the International Criminal Court (the document mentions that twelve candidate countries have signed these statutes and ten have ratified them the only exception being Turkey, which "is in no hurry to submit the violations its is responsible for on its own territory to the powers of an international jurisdiction"; the establishment of a "European penal jurisdiction on the prevention and the repression of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, which would also have the responsibility of dealing with all attempts to justify or deny such criminal acts" (the document states that the ICC would not be competent to judge those case that have predated its creation and that many non-signatory nations would not be subject to its jurisdiction, as well as the fact that many signatory countries have added generous exemption clauses.